Armageddon

An ungodly idea has been brought up to me recently.  One that even I could never have thought possible. But is it?
The theory is that the "die hard" "Christian" "extremists" in the United States not only don't oppose or fear war  they actually might welcome it and worse yet look forward to nuclear war & Armageddon. Why? Because heaven awaits, that's why!   If this doesn't mirror the Muslim extremists desire to die, and go to the after life, then I don't know what does.
 Normally I would dismiss this as patently impossible except for the fact that while speaking to a well informed Christian fanatic, he told me that there are those in the christian extreme that believe Jesus cant return until the holy land is back in complete control of Israel!  WOW!!  That's fanatical. AND annihilative